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Show I PROMINENT PIONEER OF ILLINOIS IS DYING By Leased Wire to The Tribune. CHICAGO. Sept. 10 -Colonel Isaac L. Elwood is said to be dylnp at his residence resi-dence In Dekalb, III. Colonel Elwood has been ill Hlnce tho death of his wlto nine weeks ago. Prom the first no hope of his recovery has been entertained by hiB family. Colonel Elwood is 77 years old. Tho Illness from which he suffers attacked him after the funeral of Mrs. Elwood. It i J a .rnl,ytlc "ature. It followed a similar Attack which he sulTercd last March at his winter residence In Tala-l:ata. Tala-l:ata. Flo. Colonel Elwood has been one of the leading men of Illinois since the '70s. Ho was a pioneer manufacturer of barbed wire, to which business he owes his fortune. for-tune. He was born In Sprincvllle V Y AuRiixt 3 1833. lie took pan in the Call-rl't Call-rl't fuld ru?h .f 185- anfl later was n Doknfb county pioneer. i |